ArticleVaccine2016
WITHDRAWN: Behavioral abnormalities in young female mice following administration of aluminum adjuvants and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil.
Article in Vaccine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparative Cytokine and Histology Studies on HPV and Other Viral Vaccinations: No Pathogenicity of HPV Vaccine Adjuvants.Cancer science · 2025Article
- Critical evaluation on roles of macrophagic myofasciitis and aluminum adjuvants in HPV vaccine-induced adverse events.Cancer science · 2023Review
- Scientific evaluation of alleged findings in HPV vaccines: Molecular mimicry and mouse models of vaccine-induced disease.Cancer science · 2022Review
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Following Immunization with Human Papillomavirus Vaccines.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2016Article
- Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants and Thyroid Autoimmunity.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2016Review
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2016-02-14Date of Article and/or Notice Unknown · Error in Methods · Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions ·
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Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This article has been withdrawn at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to serious concerns regarding the scientific soundness of the article. Review by the Editor-in-Chief and evaluation by outside experts, confirmed that the methodology is seriously flawed, and the claims that the article makes are unjustified. As an international peer-reviewed journal we believe it is our duty to withdraw the article from further circulation, and to notify the community of this issue. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy.
Identifiers
26778424What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.